Sanitary base for table legs, etc.



Feb. 4, 1930. E. H. OAKMAN SANITARY BASE FOR TABLE LEGS, ETC

Filed March 19. 1928 anozn eqg. 4

Pa tentecl Feh l, I j i I g v v Q N T PATENT OFFICE;

innwim mmis oiimm, F, ATLANTA, GEORGIA sAnnrAnY BASEVF'OR rABnia'LEes, are. I i I I linemanMaren i9, iaza SeriaI No; 262,?07. g This inventionaimsto provide asimple but tally to support furniture legs without cas- 1 effective means whereby ants and bugs will ters. i

be prevented from creeping from the floor In practical operation, "an insecticide is 7 upon the legs of tables and food cabinets," placed 1n the'receptacle 1 and insects cannot or bedsteads and to produce a device for this pass up from the floor upon the leg 10 of the purpose suitable to support the legs of furf rni r Th C n n i h. t niture either with or without casters. 7 there is ample room between-the cover 5 and It is within the province of the disclosure I the upper edge of the rim 3 and thus the in to improve generally and to enhance the secticide can be placed in the receptacle 1 1 1o utility of devices of that type to which'the by means of a spoon or otherwise, without invention a t in I g V V I-taking the device out from under the leg of p With the above and other objects in view, the furniture. In placing the device under 1 which willappear as the description prothe leg of the furniture, the cover may be r ceeds, the invention resides in the combinarevolved to bring the seat in position to re- 1 tio'n and arrangement of parts and in the celve the caster. I 5 details of constructionhereinafter described n Figure 3, the receptacle is shown as p and claimed, it being understood that changes" being circular in outline, but it may be of any r in the precise embodiment of the invention other shape. .Thus,-Figure 5 shows the reherein disclosed may be made Within the 'Ceptacle as being rectangular in outline. In

' Z scOpe of whatis claimed, Without departing Figures 4 and 5 partshereinbefore described v L from the spirit of the invention.- have been deslgnated by'numerals previously In the acc01npariying dravvings;-- I used With the SuffiX a, In this forrn'of the Figure 1 shows in vertical section, a device l V IOII, here'lS a reversal of parts in that p I constructed inaccordance with the invention the spindle 7 a is on the base 2? of the recep- 2 the leg of the artlcleof furniture appearing tacle 1 the tubular bearing 4 e ng C 11- f i l ti g g 7 p .nected to the part 6 of the cover 5; e v

Figure 2 is a plan of the device which forms What is claimed is: 1 Q the subject matter ofthis application; Ina sanitary base for furniture: a basin c [Figure 3 is asectio-n on the line 3+3 of forholding insecticide havingabottom and 0 Fi 1; 3 I an elevated rim, a plate extending horizon-. 3 -Figure 4 is a sectional elevation-showing tally straight across and above the top ofthe the modification; r j rim and the basin, the upper side of the plate 1 V Figure 5 is a section on -the line 5-5 of having a shallow elongated groove in its sur- Fi a, I face, the upper surface of the plate surround- 35 In carryingout the invention, thereisprog the g ng fl t, h Outer Portion I I vided a receptacle 1, including a base 2 and f lle nder side ftl Pl t b ing fi the r an upstanding rim 8.- A tubular bearing 4L central portion having a disk-like depending is mounted on the base 2, within the rim 3.; reinforcement forming a'bed' for the groove, The numeral 5 marks the cover havinga diskthe plate being spaced from the rim and suplike depending reenforcement 6 from whichported by a member locatedbetWeen the reprojects a spindle-7 The spindle 7 is jourinforcement and the inner portion of the'botnaled for rotation in the bearing 4:, and the tom. i V dislclike part 6 rests on the upper end of I In testimony that 'I claim the'foregoing as the bearing L. Inthe upper surface of the y w I have r oa fi y Signature is v v 45 cover 5 there is a seat 8, preferably of elon-' r ERWIN HARRIS OAKMAN. L 1 gated trough-like form, as shown in Figure i I i V r I V. 1 2, the seat beingadapted to; receive the caster 9'on the leg 10 of a bed or other article" ofifurnitu'r he'surfaceof the cover 5 on 7; V each'side of theseatSbei'ng aligned'horizom Y I I 

